(LEX 18) — Thursday night, 52-year-old Rosa Rowland was on Facebook Live. She mentioned the storms that were expected to come through Nicholas County.
Her family has been at what was her home on West Headquarters Road for most of the day. They say she called for help around 1:30 a.m.
According to the Nicholas County Coroner, the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Department, fire, and emergency rescue were dispatched to the area but were blocked by flood waters and downed power lines.
At 7:45 a.m., the coroner pronounced her dead.
Her daughter, Brittany Bond, says, “Stuff scattered all the way down to Cynthiana Road, they said, so it’s gonna take a while to try to clean up.”
The home was swept away from the foundation, at least 200 feet.
Rowland’s ex-husband, Tony Dixon, recalls, “She cared more about others than she did herself. I have to say that…. There’s nobody like her.”
Now, Rowland’s daughter says the family has been trying to salvage what they can and find things that were important to their mom, all while focusing on the woman she was.
Bond says, “She was one of a kind. There wasn’t nobody else like her. I mean, you know she could be mean, but she put her point across.” Bond’s dad, Dixon, says, “She could be sweet when she wanted to.”
This family now says they’re turning their focus towards making arrangements and giving Rowland the proper burial she would have wanted.
